Many thanks to Andrea Modica for her kind cooperation, and for allowing me to feature her work here on my blog.

Andrea Modica Biography:

For almost fifteen years, Andrea Modica photographed a family in her rural town in upstate New York. It is here, through a young girl named Barbara and her extended family, that Modica created her work from the series "Treadwell". Transforming reality into fantasy, Modica creates narratives that seem to have no beginning or end, yet present endless scenarios.

In a fictitious town called Treadwell, Barbara and her friends pose for the photographer, who creates images with an 8" x 10" view camera. Like Faulkner's Jefferson County or Cheever's Shady Hill, Modica's Treadwell is a place where anything is possible. Through intense collaboration and trust, events unfold before our eyes, questioning our sense of reality.

Andrea Modica is one of photography's most important image-makers. Her work has been exhibited across the country and is in many collections, such as The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. A MFA graduate of Yale University, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship among many other prestigious awards. Andrea's work has been featured in many magazines, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and American Photo to name a few. Her five books, including "Minor League" and "Treadwell" have met with critical acclaim. Andrea teaches at the International Center for Photography, the Woodstock Photography Workshops and the Santa Fe Workshops. She currently teaches at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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Many thanks for visiting, and I look forward to checking out your new blog. Hope you'll stop by often.

I'm not quite sure how I set up the comment box -- it was a while ago. But if memory serves, go to your Dashboard and click on the Settings tab. When that opens click on the Comments tab. A menu will open and you make selections according to how you want to set up your comments box. Hope this works, and the best of luck to you with your new blog.

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I teach photography at several community art centers including the Main Line Art Center in Haverford, PA, the Community Arts Center in Wallingford, PA, and at the Greater Norristown Art League. I have been researching photography web sites for years to share with my students. A blog seems to me like a natural way to share my findings with a larger audience.
My interest in photography dates back to the mid-1950's when my father brought home one of the first Polaroid Land cameras.
If you're in the Philadelphia area, you can see my work in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum at Ursinus College, at Rosemont College, and the Woodmere Art Museum. Other collectors include the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, the Lancaster Museum of Art in Lancaster, PA, The Noyes Museum in Oceanville, NJ, the Palace of the Governors Photo Archive, Santa Fe, NM, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin, and the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.
Also, my photographs have been published in "Camera Arts" magazine, "The Calumet Newsletter for Photographic Artists," and the "Antietam Review."

Whenever possible I have tried to secure the permission from photographers before posting their work. All the pictures featured on this blog belong to the photographers concerned or their respective rights holders and are posted for inspirational and commenting purpose only. If you see your picture featured and don’t want it to be, email me and I will gladly remove it.